Zephaniah Buffington (born 1771) was a farmer and merchant
active in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. His business connections
appear to have been principally within the Society of Friends
communities of Bristol County, Massachusetts and Washington
County, New York, the latter being a community started by
emigrants from the Dartmouth area. As a merchant within this
Quaker network, Buffington had dealings with other prominent
Bristol County Quakers, including Joel Packard, Stephen
Gifford, Peleg Slocum, and Joseph Howland and Company.
Furthermore, his one marriage in the Dartmouth vital
statistics was to Lydia Tucker, the daughter of another
Dartmouth Quaker family; she died within two years of the
wedding.